This card is a miracle. Mundane, unsinkable life triumphs over blurred dissolution. A man, despite the befogged oblivion behind him, despite the intrusion of transient, haphazard artificiality in...
Darrel Chaney keeps coming back to me, even now, in a fractured world. And I keep coming back to Darrel Chaney. I first encountered him when I was eight years old. That’s when the world started...
I fell out of love with baseball cards in 1981, when I turned 13. I mean that first, purest love. So I didn’t know that Skip Lockwood, shown here in his 1981 card, ever played for my favorite t...
This is one of my favorite baseball cards. It’s an action shot, but what is the action? In some other famous cards with action shots, the action captures an element of the game that’s at the ...
Manny Sarmiento has just released a pitch. The dust at his feet is evidence of both the temporal proximity and the physical force of his effort. But this effort, it seems, has not produced its mo...
This is me and some baseball cards. It looks like I’m saying “enough already” but with the not unhappy awareness that it will never be enough, that whatever I’m trying without much convic...
https://cardboardgods.net/2022/08/12/cardboard-gods-in-sunlight/
I’m leaving baseball cards here and there lately. I hope people find them and get something out of them. The cards are random, and the places where I leave them are random. I pick one out of a ...
For a few weeks now, as the world convulses, I’ve been sorting cards. My method is to first sort cards into teams, with the teams themselves grouped on the table in front of me by the divisiona...
As I was waiting for yesterday’s Strat-O-Matic online results to post, I called one of my oldest friends. He isn’t on Twitter or Facebook or anywhere else where I’ve been narrating for seve...
https://cardboardgods.net/2022/06/23/mark-fidrych-and-the-search-for-meaning/
As reported last night, the Worcester Birds have been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. But one meaningful game remains. Mark Fidrych has won his last 3 starts to push his record...
https://cardboardgods.net/2022/06/22/how-to-watch-mark-fidrych-go-for-20-wins/